Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung will chair a national committee for education reforms

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung will chair a national committee for education reforms that will work as a think-tank for the government to tackle the critical issues facing education and training in Vietnam.

The National Council of Education and Human Resources Development announced at a session Tuesday that it is working on a plan to establish the National Committee for Education and Training Innovation.

Under the plan, Dung will lead the committee, and his deputies will be Dinh The Huynh, chief of the Communist Party's Department of Propaganda and Education, and Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam.

Representatives of the Ministry of Education and Training, Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs, Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of Finance, and Ministry of Planning and Investment will be permanent members of the committee.

The committee is expected to help the government organize a comprehensive educational reform campaign and coordinate the implementation of national projects on education, vocational training and human resources development.